despise
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Blake later claimed to despise the job as a waste of the serious talent he should have used in film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Co-signers include the Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly advocacy and research group in Washington that tends to despise Big Tech, and the Writer’s Guild.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
But it has also triggered an unexpected wave of nostalgia, with some Delhi residents expressing affection for a place they often claimed to despise.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
People either love the sitcom’s cartoonish flourishes or despise them.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
“I despise everything about this situation,” Camille mutters, bouncing her head against the back of the sofa.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
No popular music genre despises the present as much as country music.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
There is something else Friedman despises: finishing second.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
These days, the online literati despises Shriver as a matter of principle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
Cicero, who despises Catalina for his reckless idealism, is one of many characters trying to bring the architect to heel.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
After all, in many respects, they are simply doing what black people did during the Jim Crow era—they are turning to each other for support and solace in a society that despises them.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Burnham has long been unusual as a politician - a leader who has managed to be popular in a time when politicians often disappoint and are sometimes despised.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Other such eastern refuges were established, and it looked for a time as if the problem of how to preserve America’s most despised animal had been found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
It’s about understanding that that the removal of a single despised figurehead isn’t enough.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
Over the next few days, I did what any rational woman falling for a man with a cat she despised would do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
However, the Greeks so despised zero that they refused to admit it into their writings, even though they saw how useful it was.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
He is described as a man who had “poked his chin up sideways, carrying his nose with that aforesaid appearance of ‘sniff,’ as though despising an egg which he knew he could not digest.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Society is depicted as "worshiping only power and money, despising art, sensitivity, tenderness, where people ...don't talk anymore."
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
“I really started despising law enforcement after that,” he said during an interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
"It's astonishing how people can put so much vitriol and energy into despising someone. It's extraordinarily damaging," she says of the most bitter sibling rivalry.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024
“Thank you, but I can’t accept your money,” I said firmly, despising myself for my pride.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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